This month, we made the Halloween Sweet Potato Cake in the Holidays and Special Occasion section of the book (pages 178).

The cake is made with sweet potato (me love the sweet potato - I baked a bunch extra and ate them during the week) and yummy spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

The filling is cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar with orange juice concentrate. The only problem was the filling made it a bit too loose so I think that caused my cake to tilt; I also should have leveled out my layers. Next time, I might use only orange extract and zest so there is less liquid in the filling.

The frosting is the cream cheese mixture with the addition of unsweetened chocolate. It is very sweet.

The cake, like her other cakes, is incredibly moist but very weighty. You get a workout carrying this around!

The cake was a hit at work! And since it had fresh sweet potato inside, we put it in the "vegetable" food group!

This photo looks straight but the layers were sliding and caused a leaning tower of sweet potato cake!

Even with the slight slant, that looks like the perfect slice of cake. By the way, I'm making the chocolate peanut butter cake for a christmas party (next month) and I can't wait! It's all thanks to your beautiful cake that helped me decide what I'm bringing.. hopefully it will look half as nice as yours, I'm kind of worried about the chocolate ganache part.

These cakes from sky high do look like you could get a workout just from lifting them!

oh my gosh.. i didn't realise that coz i added japanese sweet potato instead of the normal ones, i was lacking that orange hue. THe cake looks gorgeous too. and despite it leaning, it must have tasted great!

Okay, I just had to share... I was browsing at Half Price Books today and found a copy of Sky High Cakes for only $15! Of course, I had to buy it. Now I'm thinking about trying to join the Cake Slice Bakers, too.